Saturday, April 28, 2012

As I have quite a bit of time for other things right now I made this really short movie from one of the routes I did in Kalymnos. The other day I went through 12000 pictures and deleted pictures I don't need, a job I have wanted to do for so long but never had the time for :)
Enjoy the film!

Thursday, April 26, 2012

After a long and stressful journey we
finally got back to London late Saturday night. On Sunday I was exhausted and
my body felt sore like when you got high fever but I thought I was probably
just tired from the trip the day before. However, on Monday I started to feel even
worse and I had this weird pain in my chest that disturbed me during school but
the pain went away in the evening so I wasn’t too worried about it.

Then super early the next morning I walk up
with a pain so severe I can only compare it to the time when I hit the ground
from 9 meters in a climbing accident. We decided that it was probably best if I
went to the hospital to get checked up. At the hospital the first test came
back with a clear message, something was wrong with my heart, the test result
was equal to someone who just suffered a heart attack. During the day I was
tested for many of the most common problems but they could still not fully
understand what was wrong.

Later that night I was transported with an
ambulance to a close by hospital specialised on heart problems. I spent the
next 3 days at the new hospital where they I had to go through even more tests
to make sure nothing was missed out.

The food was good though :)

On Friday evening when the last test result
came back the doctors could finally agree on what they thought were wrong and
decided it was safe for me to leave the hospital. I have an inflammation of the
heart muscle caused by a virus, which means no school in two weeks and no
physical activity for 4-6 weeks. Not much I can do, just follow the doctors
advice and stay positive because it could have been much worse…

Sunday, April 22, 2012

During the Easter we once again went to
Kalymnos. We had packed our bags with warm cloth in the belief that last years
cold weather would repeat itself. However, this year the weather stayed hot and
very humid throughout out most of trip, which could be a bit annoying at times
but on the other hand it was nice not having to freeze while you are on
vacation in Greece.

Trying the moves on Gaia 8b

We meet many familiar faces from both
Sweden and London; it was especially nice to climb with some old good friends
and as with all climbing trips it was the same pleasure to get to know new
people.

Ne pas toucher a ma 8a+

The climbing in Kalymnos was as always
superb. The big highlight of the trip was when I did my first 8a+. Ne pas toucher a
ma bite a 30 meters route of very powerful and athletic climbing that creates
one of the best routes I ever done.

In the end of the trip I got sick and vomited from eating some bad
seafood so some extra rest was needed. However, on the very last day I had to
go up to take my quickdraws down from a route named Helios, 8a. The walk up to
the cliff was quite exhausting for my stomach but when I was finally up there I
couldn’t leave the route without giving it another attempt. The attempt was successful
and I was happy to end the trip in such a good way.

Then the storm came, which would almost
stopped us form coming home. All normal boats were cancelled on the day because
of the strong wind. So after hours of searching we found a boat willing to go
over to Kos. The captain is known as the Pirate as he travels in ANY weather.
The boat trip was like a rollercoaster with people vomiting all over but we got
over and were able to come home to London.